Cushioning device for doors and windows



March 18, 1930. J. MILHANDER CUSHIONING DEVICE FOR DOORS ANDWINDOWS Filed Dec. 24. 1928 atented 18, 139

JACOB MILHANDER, OF LOS .ANGELES, CALIFORNIA CUSHIONING DEVICE FOR DOORS AND WINDOWS Application filed December 24, 1928. Serial No. 328,189.

This invention relates more specifically to a device for cushioning and sealing against movement, doors, casement windows and like structures.

The chief object of this invention is to provide a simple resilient cushioning device that may be readily installed on a door jamb to effectually prevent any rattling or movement of the door when the same is swung to a closed position.

Another object is to provide a device that is of simple construction, economical of manufacture, and which may be readily attached to a door jamb or window frame without the use of attaching means other than those possessed by such structures.

In the manufacture" of auto-vehicles the doors are usually fitted very closely in their openings, and in order to prevent undue rattling or movement of the doors rubber cushioning devices are employed on the latch side of the door jambs. These devices are quite effective when the vehicles are comparatively new, but when the doors and adjacent portions of the vehicle bodies shrink by reason of atmospheric conditions and from other causes, it becomes necessary to replace the cushioning devices, which also shrink and dry out, with fresh ones to compensate for such shrinkages.

Bymeans of my simple air cushioning device the natural shrinkage of the doors are provided for and the same will always be held tightly in their frames against any movement that would cause the same to rattle or creak.

In the drawings wherein a single embodiment of the invention is disclosed by way of example:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an auto-vehicle of the sedan type equipped with the.

cushioning device.

Fig. 2 is a face view of the device shown in position on a vehicle door jamb.

Fig. 3 is a central vertical section of the device taken on line 3--3 of Fig. 2.

Referring more specifically to the drawings the device preferably consists of a mo] ded rubber member 5, consisting of a flat base 6 about one-fourth inch thick and approxithe air therein when the edge of the door 13 a is brought thereagainst.

In practice the device may be readily and conveniently attached to the vehicle door jamb 14 and on a leaf 15 of one of the hinges by removing one of the hinge screws 16 and passing it through the opening in the attaching tab. Although I have shown only a single device attached to the jamb which will in a majority of cases prove suflicient to prevent rattles in the doors, another may be separed in the same manner to the upper hinge When the device is in place on the door jamb and edge 18 of the door is brought thereagainst as when closing the same, the air in the cavity 12 will'be compressed, and as the device is attached at .only a single point movement of the base will be afforded, the trapped or compressed air holding the door against any movement and thus eliminating any rattles, squeaks, or other untoward noises.

It will be obvious that the device may be readily employed in connection with casement windows to effect a tight seal against the elements, and also the doors of building structures, not only toseal the same but to prevent noises occasioned by the quick shut-.

ting or slamming of the same.

I claim: I

1. In combination with the frame of a door having a door hinged therein, of a base mem ber formed ofa resilient material provided with a cavity therein, said member adapted to be secured to that portion of the door frame to .Which the door is hinged with the rim of the cavity engaging the face of said door frame, whereby to seal the door in its frame against movement.

,2. A device-of the class described comprising a body of resilient material having an air cavity formed therein adapted to be secured at one of its ends to the slde face of a door 5 frame, the cavity of the. body beingtipposite- 1y disposed against the door frame or compressing t e air therein, whereby to permit of a sliding movement of the body and to compress the air in its cavity when the door frame 10 is brought thereagainst.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

' JACOB MILHANDER. 

